Why not write a short "stub" program to setup the args and then a CALL
statement to execute your subroutine? That's what we do very often.
You can either put in DEBUG statements in the "stub" program
before/after the subroutine call. 8-)

Andy Pflueger
Ivy Hill Corporation
Louisville, KY


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:59:04 -0600, Shawn Waldie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wondering if there is a way to execute a subroutine from the colon
> prompt.
> 
> Let's say I have a subroutine that is defined as having 2 input args
> like:
> 
> SUBROUTINE subr.name(arg1,arg2).
> 
> I would like to test it from the colon prompt without having to
> hard-code the values of arg1/arg2...something like:
> 
> :RUN BP subr.name "value.of.arg1" "value.of.arg2"
> 
> Is something like this possible?  What I've tried so far hasn't worked.
> 
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